A Yellow Card for Throwing Snowballs!

Daisy Turnip writes.................

We were cooking dinner last night when there was a knock at the door. Due to a minor car accident with the snow and ice, we ended up looking after our ex neighbour’s child for about 20 minutes last night.

She’s about 5 years old (sorry Ian and Helen, we know we’re useless and can’t remember how old she is) – talking to kids that age, especially Bunny (ex neighbour’s pet name for his daughter), is just brilliant. Everything is so black and white.

Bunny’s dad left, to sort out the car insurance details, and we asked her what she wanted to drink. Sugar free orange, sugar free apple and blackcurrant, or, are you allowed Coca Cola? A big grin appeared on her face as she said she’d like Coke. I so knew what that grin meant. I asked her if she was allowed to have Coke, and if she did have some, when Daddy came to collect her, would he be happy that she’d drank Coke? She thought for a moment and then said, ‘I don’t know.’ ‘OK, pop it is then, what would you like, orange or apple and blackcurrant?’ ‘Mixed’ came her reply. A mixed glass of orange, apple and blackcurrant was placed in front of her – yeuk, but Bunny liked it, along with a packet of Walkers cheese and onion crisps – I never asked whether or not Dad would be happy with that – she kept saying she was hungry, we’d been away for the weekend and to state that the cupboards were bare was a major understatement!

Bunny then kept telling us how she’d never received a ‘yellow card’ at school. What on earth is a yellow card? She proceeded to tell us that a yellow card is when you’ve not been very good at school – but not too bad either. If you receive 2 yellow cards, you get a red one.

Apparently a girl at school today had received a yellow card for throwing a snowball on the playground!

Unbelievable – I was so shocked I opened a bottle of wine! The world has gone mad.

I never found out what happens if you receive both a yellow and a red card! Even if you’re not into footie, it obviously works because it’s Bunny’s major achievement not to have received a single yellow card since she’s been a school.